Russia falsely claims US laboratories have moved from Ukraine to Mongolia
April 2022
Russia falsely claims US laboratories have moved from Ukraine to Mongolia

The Hoaxline
According to Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev, after the beginning of the “special operation in Ukraine,” the Americans moved their top-secret bioweapons to Mongolia:
Americans are going to build laboratories there. There are good reasons to believe that these are the same ones that they have curtailed in Ukraine. It is important for them to remain close to Russia.
The Evidence
Hoaxlines inquired about the claims about the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the relocation of laboratories. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency Public Affairs told Hoaxlines:
Our Agency has no current, active, or planned engagements with Mongolia. We are not aware of any relationship between Ukraine and Mongolia to move pathogens.
The Russian state has offered no evidence for its repeated assertions related to false claims it made about laboratories. Given Russia’s history of making false claims about the United States and biological weapons–Russia spread bioweapon disinformation about the US for the first time no later than 1949–we’re not taking Russia’s word on this.
To provide just one example of the harm Russia has caused with similar narratives, in 1982 after a long-term Soviet disinformation campaign, Pakistan denied visa renewals to US scientists and ordered them to leave the country under threat of arrest. The scientists were there with the equivalent of over $9 billion in 2022 to research malaria control and prevent thousands of deaths in the region annually.
Why did Pakistan become so hostile toward the scientists, then? A Soviet disinformation campaign systematically spread rumors that the US was studying biological warfare for use in Cuba by experimenting on Pakistan’s people. The cost of this disinformation was every life we could have saved between 1982 and the early 2000s when Pakistan finally reduced malaria cases in the area.
The Context
The Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications, which has published daily digests of Russia’s false claims, sees a more ominous meaning in the Kremlin’s game of musical bioweapons labs:
Moscow is trying to further draw Beijing to its side in the war not so much with Kyiv as with Washington. We will see what happens, but the intentions of the propaganda are quite clear.
The Verdict: False
Claims that the US has moved laboratories from Ukraine to Mongolia are without evidence and the Agency “has no current, active, or planned engagements with Mongolia.”
Examples of bioweapon disinformation
Soviet bioweapon disinformation started no later than 1949, and it has been a lasting favorite, adapted to new outbreaks and crises. Here are some examples of bioweapon disinformation, foreign and domestic, from the past two decades.
2002 to 2003
2005
- Avian Flu another Pentagon Hoax?
- The Pentagon’s alarming project: Avian Flu Biowar Vaccine
- Bird Flu: A Corporate Bonanza for the Biotech Industry
2009
- The truth about the pandemic flu vaccines
- The Swine Flu Vaccine is part of the NWO’s Depopulation Plan
- 2009 H1N1 Swine/Bird Flu ‘Pandemic’ Hysteria Part of NWO Population Reduction Agenda (March 30, 2012)
- Pandemic — How they plan to deceive the Christians
2012
- Ebola Virus: The Global Elite’s Bio-Weapon Scheme for 90 Percent Depopulation
- Ebola vaccine pioneer joked about use of genetically engineered virus to cull the human population
- Depopulation: Could a Speech From 8 Years Ago Hold the Key to the Rapid Spread of Ebola?
- Russia Developed the Ebola Vaccine
2016
- Russia Accuses Bill Gates Of Engineering The Zika Virus To Depopulate The World
- The article, Bill Gates was involved in the artificial creation of the Zika epidemic to reduce the world’s population, appeared in Geopolitica.ru – Italian in 2020.
- The staged Zika pandemic was engineered by globalist governments to justify the aerial bombardment of awakening populations with toxic chemicals
- The Zika virus and the NWO depopulation agenda
- The war on fertility via the Forced Vaccination agenda: Enter the Zika Virus
2017
- In 2017, the narrative that was spread by Russian and Chinese accounts first appeared. A pro-Kremlin hacking collective called CyberBerkut, Russian state media, and later an FSB-controlled outlet in 2018, published false claims about biological weapons and laboratories in Ukraine and Georgia.
- Fact check from the original disinformation campaign
Recommended reads and sources
- Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War (video)
- China’s False Allegations of the Use of Biological Weapons by the United States during the Korean War
- The Virus of Disinformation: Echoes of past bioweapons accusations in today’s COVID-19 conspiracy theories
- ‘The Russians must know it’s a lie.’ Ukrainian bat research spun into a false tale of bioweapons
- How Duterte Used Facebook To Fuel The Philippine Drug War
- Hoaxlines Report: Russia changed its story about bioweapons. Then Russia and China flooded the world with disinformation.